| 1 Grant Hart | The Argument | Domino |
| 2 Gregory Alan Isakov | The Weatherman | |
| 3 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL |
| 4 Mavis Staples | One True Vine | Anti |
| 5 Portugal The Man | Evil Friends | Atlantic |
| 6 Robert Pollard | Honey Locust Honky Tonk | GBV Inc. |
| 7 Queens of the Stone Age | Like Clockwork | Matador |
| 8 National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 9 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 10 Tullycraft | Lost In Light Rotation | Magic Marker |
| 11 Colfax Speed Queen | Satisfaction Inteded | |
| 12 Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 13 Sigur Ros | Kveikur | XL |
| 14 A. tom collins | Stick and Poke | |
| 15 Brent Amaker and the Rodeo | Year of the Dragon | Fin |
| 16 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 17 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 18 Smith Westerns | Soft Will | Mom and Pop |
| 19 Camera Obscura | Desire Lines | 4AD |
| 20 Alela Diane | About Farewell | Rusted Blue |
| 21 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 22 Shannon and the Clams | Dreams in the Rat House | Hardly Art |
| 23 Yellowbirds | Songs From the Vanished Frontier | Royal Potato Family |
| 24 Big Deal | June Gloom | Mute |
| 25 Dessa | Parts of Speech | Doomtree |
| 26 Ebony Bones | Behold, A Pale Horse | 1984 |
| 27 John Vanderslice | Dagger Beach | Tiny Telephone |
| 28 Anna Von Hausswolff | Ceremony | Other Music |
| 29 Empire of the Sun | Ice On The Dune | Astralwerks |
| 30 Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Columbia |
